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Thinking Women: New Books Spring Lecture Series

Please mark your calendars and join the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies for our Spring Lecture Series Thinking Women!

University of California, Irvine
Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies

Thinking Women:
New Books
Spring Lecture Series


Wednesdays 12-1 PM (PST)
Zoom Links will be sent a day prior to the talk

April 7th
Catherine Sameh (UC Irvine)
Axis of Hope: Iranian Women's Rights Activism Across Borders
Moderated by Inderpal Grewal (Yale University)
View the talk here: https://uci.zoom.us/rec/share/CME5fhvoikieCS0AMdtvZ0dW7iiz23llC6UaQGYNXJSVjpFY7UrbAJ7EnKteNfUV.No5vBeDQOsCYj7N3

April 21st
Samantha Pinto (University of Texas)
Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights
Moderated by Jessica Millward (UC Irvine)
View the talk here: https://uci.zoom.us/rec/share/OAjUKo-DNI2f6OJ4yOgCSLRrA6vGg5Ov_dyYGRPCsdNfccT2pbzzb7yCELoSepFF.KUpHmZ-bxNsZgUdu

May 5th
Durba Mitra (Harvard University)
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
Moderated by Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz)

May 26th
Simidele Dosekun (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture
Moderated by Rudo Mudiwa (Princeton University)
View the talk here: https://uci.zoom.us/rec/share/YPdfP0TRzN7eKo34aEt7LKEWIKVeTlbYDEaFeddwFHK_1sX5pw3jK-wVDXq3NcFJ.qY8vyTqP4Z7sJJ55?startTime=1622055732000